Coming in Adium 1.2

The popular and multiformat instant messager Adium is being further developed to a new vesion 1.2 which should be released soon as indicated on the dedicated homepage.

Adium 1.2, our next major goal, is going to be a crazy awesome release. In the last two days we've finished the initial merges of our Google Summer of Code 2007 students' efforts; it'll be some time and effort before the development trunk of Adium is stable and close to a release with all these incoming changes, but it'll be well worth it. The Summer of Code was a huge success:
- Andy Monitzer made many improvements to libpurple's XMPP/Jabber support, benefiting both Adium, Pidgin, and Finch.
- Erich Kreutzer modernized, fixed, and expanded Adium's Bonjour support, implementing file transfer in the process.
- Erik Beereport worked on multi-user conferencing in Adium, making good strides toward a more full-featured, shiny group chat experience.
- Matt Handley greatly expanded Adium's applescript support; it will now be possible to control Adium easily via Applescript, paving the way to even more great user content and control customizability.
- Andre Cohen implemented snapping / detachable groups which let you detach groups from the contact list into free-floating windows
In addition, Adium 1.2 will utilize libpurple 2.2.0, which will bring a number of improvements, most notably the results of a Google Summer of Code project for Pidgin by Jeff Connelly which has added MyspaceIM support.
Join us in improving Adium! Read Contributing To Adium to learn how you can help :)

Our friends from www.opensourcemac.de offers also to download a compiled SVN version of Adium 1.2 for those brave enough to test it (Adium 1.2svn)